Voters protest over shortage of House of Reps ballot papers in Abuja

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Some voters protested the lack of ballot paper for the House of Representatives elections at the Open Space Dreamy Academy, Polling Unit 26, Arab Road, Kubwa, Abuja.

The Polling Unit has about 365 registered voters, and when the Presiding Officer announced that the ballot paper for the House of Representatives had been exhausted, only approximately 195 eligible voters out of the people who had written down their names were called for accreditation and voting.

It was learned that some of the 195 people who had written their names earlier had gone home and would return later to exercise their civic responsibility.

When the lady Presiding Officer anmounced that the ballot paper for the House of Representatives election had been exhausted, some of the voters protested, saying that the ballot papers for each position should correspond with the number of registered voters.

One of the voters insisted that he must be given the ballot paper for the position before he would leave the place.

Some of the electorate said they would remain at the polling unit till the end of the exercise to know the number that will be declared.